Year-End Lists

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of notable year-end lists.

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Wall Street Journal: The 10 Best Books of 2025
New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2025
Mojo: The 75 Best Albums of 2025
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Twilight of Democracy

The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism

by Anne Applebaum

Lists

50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020: Washington Post
Favorite Books of 2020: Barack Obama

Trending Lists

The 10 Best Books of 2022 New York Times · New York Times
The 75 Best Albums of 2025 Mojo
The Best Books of 2025 Economist
Top 10 Films of 2025 Cahiers du Cinéma
Best Films of 2025 Jonathan Rosenbaum · La Internacional Cinéfila Poll
Top 50 Albums of 2025 Anthony Fantano · The Needle Drop
Dean's List 2025 Robert Christgau
100 Notable Books of 2025 New York Times · New York Times
Best Films of 2025 Mark Kermode
The 10 Best Books of 2025 Wall Street Journal
The 25 Best Films of 2025 David Ehrlich
Top 50 Albums of 2025 The Wire
The 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times · New York Times
The 10 Best Movies of 2025 Peter Travers · The Travers Take

Trending Works

Fargo
Ride into the Sun Brad Mehldau
Slow Horses
A Guardian and a Thief Megha Majumdar
Exterminate All the Brutes Raoul Peck
Enys Men Mark Jenkin
Sometimes I Think About Dying Rachel Lambert
Weapons Zach Cregger
Slow Noodles Chantha Nguon
Winged Victory Willi Carlisle
Dreileben Christian Petzold, Dominik Graf, Christoph Hochhäuser
Sanguivore II: Mistress of Death Creeper
It Was Just an Accident Jafar Panahi
Die My Love Lynne Ramsay

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